Afterword: Death and the State
Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
6-2017
ISBN
9781107155480
DOI
10.1017/9781316658765.007
Abstract
The contributions in this book lend a multifaceted analysis to a topic that long has been a darling and a conundrum of legal scholars and practitioners alike:' where precisely does the death penalty fit into the larger jurisprudence of justice and punishment? The question might be asked in different ways: What role does the death penalty play in shaping both our system and our concepts of punishment or justice? Is that role still valuable? Or has the pursuit of this ultimate punishment left us, as a society, perpetually strung up between the possibilities of getting it wrong - meting out the punishment unjustly, arbitrarily, unconstitutionally, or to the innocent - and failing to punish enough to deter crime and to restore social order?
First Page
153
Last Page
170
Num Pages
18
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Editor
Austin Sarat
Book Title
Final Judgments: The Death Penalty in American Law and Culture
Recommended Citation
Jenny E. Carroll,
Afterword: Death and the State,
in
Final Judgments: The Death Penalty in American Law and Culture
153
(Austin Sarat eds., 2017).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/2069